On Thu, 02 May 2013 18:30:43 +0100 (BST) (Ted Harding) Ted.Harding@wlandres.net allegedly wrote:
Claws looks interesting! It certainly has a lot of capabilities, and might, for me, be a worthy successor to XFMail (which I'm still using, but which is defunct in development and no longer available with recent Linux distributions).
There is one question that I haven;t been able to find an answer to on the claws website [ http://www.claws-mail.org/ ].
A thing I regularly need to do (and which is what prompted me to adopt XFMail, nearly 20 years ago) is -- when I am writing a new email or replying to one -- to be able to have other email messages (which I have saved) open in separate windows.
Ted
Yes - no problem. I currently have your email and four others from separate stored directories open on my desktop whilst I am answering this one to you.
This allows cross-referencing, or pasting in quotes, from other relevant emails. E.g. if I want to see what someone wrote in the past on a subject which I'm currently writing about, I can track down their old email in a folder listing, double-click on it, and it will open up. And you can have several open at the same time, for complex matters.
I do exactly the same thing. In fact I store all my mail in "topic" folders within my claws inbox.
Oh, and while I'm at it: Does claws permit arbitrary editing of stored emails (e.g. adding/deleting/editing content, adding/removing attachments, etc.)?
No. You cannot edit a stored email. What I tend to do in such circumstances though is forward a copy to myself. I can then edit the forwarded copy before sending.
And does it have flexible provision for appropriate handling of MIME types?
Yep. No problem.
Give it a try.
Best
Mick
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